Vandals Ransack, Damage Little League Ballpark

Some things, like pushing old women out of line or snatching candy from babies, is bad form even for crooks. Somebody ought to tell that to the vandals who trashed a San Fernando Valley Little League ballpark.

Less than two weeks from opening day March 9, the West Valley Little League is facing an empty “Field of Dreams.”

Vandals broke into the team equipment shed, ransacked a snack bar and spray-painted their gang tag all over the team’s facilities in Encino.

Not only did the gang plaster yellow spray paint on stove burners, rip doors off hinges, and steal bats and balls, but they taped down the handles on soda dispenser spigots to flood the floor with sticky soft drinks.

Giants coach Joe Bua figures it would have been better if the vandals just plundered the equipment shed. Instead, they damaged everything in sight and left the league scrambling to raise the $2,500 or so needed for repairs.